Indian scientists recently discovered what could be one of the most known astronomical objects that emit gamma rays in the universe. Located in Hanley in the world’s tallest gamma-ray telescope, mace, Ladakh, ‘an explosion from the past’ is detected, well before Earth and/or solar system.
Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, the Mumbai part of the Department of Atomic Energy, have detected an explosion from a galaxy, also known as Gama Ray Flair. They say that it comes from a source of eight billion light years away. This year the discovery made on Republic Day provides a new understanding of how the universe is created.
A ‘light year’ is a remedy for distance and no time. A light year means the distance covered by light or a ray of photon to travel in a year. Incidentally, a photon or ray of light takes about eight minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth, which is about 150 million kilometers away.
Scientists estimate that the Earth was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Out of this discovery, scientists suggest that this intense flare is at least 3.5 billion years old than the time of Earth’s birth.
BARC scientists report that ‘in a ground braking observation, the major atmospheric Cherarekov experiment (Mace) located in Hanley has detected an intensive gamma-ray flair from distant quasar OP 313, which B2 1308+326’ also known as.
Scientists said that it is about 8 billion light years away from the Earth. This means that the light that we inspect today from OP 313 started when the universe was less than half of its present age! ‘Since then this discovery has been seen by other gamma Kiran telescopes in Russia and USA.
In Hanley, in the cold desert of Ladakh, someone has a telescope like another, a particular robotic eye in the sky is to track some of the most energetic phenomenon such as birth and stars birth and death. Special tools are required to study these explosive stars.
The Department of Atomic Energy established the major atmospheric Cherankov experiment or mudled a state-of-the-art gamma-ray telescope for a very high-energy astronomy. It has been developed indigenously by the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Mumbai.
Around 4,300 above sea level, in Hanley of Ladakh, the huge telescope is always waiting for signs because India tries to decod some of the greatest mysteries of the universe such as Black Hole, Supernova and Dark Matter.
Mess (major atmospheric cherenkov use telescope) diameter is 21 meters, weighing 180 tons and has 356 mirror panels. It is the largest telescope in Asia and the highest in the world. It is equipped with a high-resolution imaging camera that weighs about 1200 kg. It is being used to study black hole and dark matter.
